Uphold controls. Keep the team aligned with change management, audit, regulatory and resilience requirements, and drive technology risk remediation to closure.
Manage strategic vendors. Own OEM and platform vendor relationships, including roadmaps, escalations, lifecycle and renewals.
Represent the team. Give senior technology leadership clear status, trade-offs and decisions.
What you'll bring
12+ years in infrastructure engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams.
A track record of delivering complex infrastructure programs, such as data center builds, platform migrations or large hardware refreshes, with clear accountability for outcomes.
A hands-on background in compute and virtualization, including VMware vSphere at enterprise scale. You are technical enough to earn engineers' respect, challenge a plan and make sound trade-off calls, while leaving design authority with technical leads.
Working knowledge of enterprise storage platforms.
Experience delivering clean, well-documented handovers to operations teams.
Experience hiring, developing and retaining strong engineers, and addressing underperformance directly.
Program and financial discipline: capacity planning, budgets, vendor and contract management.
Experience in a regulated environment, ideally financial services, with change, risk and audit controls.
Clear, concise communication with engineers and senior stakeholders alike.
Nice to have
Deeper enterprise storage engineering experience, such as NetApp, Pure Storage or HPE storage.
Experience with Red Hat OpenShift (including OpenShift Virtualization), Microsoft Azure IaaS and bare metal provisioning, or the ability to develop proficiency quickly.
Infrastructure as code and automation, such as Terraform, Ansible and API-driven provisioning.
Experience leading large-scale workload migrations between platforms.
Experience with FinOps or cost transparency for infrastructure services.
The expected base salary ranges from $150k-$200k. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.
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Other requirements
In office attendance is an essential function of this role. There is currently a requirement to be in the office a minimum 50% of the time, or five out of every 10 business days. Specific information about the requirements for your role will be communicated during the recruitment process.
Company Overview
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is the 15th largest bank in the world as measured by total assets of ~$2 trillion. Mizuho's 60,000 employees worldwide offer comprehensive financial services to clients in 35 countries and 800 offices throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia. Mizuho Americas is a leading provider of corporate and investment banking services to clients in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Through its acquisition of Greenhill, Mizuho provides M&A, restructuring and private capital advisory capabilities across Americas, Europe and Asia. Mizuho Americas employs approximately 3,500 professionals, and its capabilities span corporate and investment banking, capital markets, equity and fixed income sales & trading, derivatives, FX, custody and research. Visit www.mizuhoamericas.com.
Mizuho Americas offers a competitive total rewards package.
We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with applicable laws prohibiting discrimination in all of the jurisdictions where we operate. AA Employer - M/F/Disability/Veteran.
Accommodations are available upon request for applicants with disabilities and other covered reasons in accordance with applicable law.
We participate in the E-Verify program.
We maintain a drug-free workplace and reserve the right to require pre- and post-hire drug testing, as permitted by applicable law.
